A US jury has awarded $42m (£33m) to three former detainees of Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison ... to the US Army at the prison west of Baghdad. In court, lawyers for the contractor argued ...

BAGHDAD/MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Hundreds of convicts, including senior members of al Qaeda, broke out of Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail as comrades launched a military-style assault to free them ...

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It is halfway between Baghdad and Fallujah, which is controlled by Isis. Security forces prevented Isis from seizing Abu Ghraib when the extremists swept across northern and western Iraq in the summer ...

(Baghdad, September 25 ... after evidence emerged of US forces mistreating detainees at Abu Ghraib and other US-run prisons in Iraq, Human Rights Watch said today.

Insurgents control the capital Damascus, President Bashar Assad has fled into hiding, and for the first time after 50 years of his family's iron hand, it is an open question how Syria will be governed ...